COS crushes Laney 41-14 at home

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Oct 8, 2012 at 11:36 AMOct 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM

Bill Choy

Thanks to extremely strong play on both sides of the ball, the College of the Siskiyous Eagle football team demolished the Laney Eagles of Oakland 41-14 at home on Saturday afternoon in Weed.With the victory, COS equaled its win total from last season by improving to 5-1 overall. Laney fell to 1-4.Running back Christian Reyes ran around and through the competition and finished with 230 yards and two touchdowns on 29 attempts. Linebacker Myke Tavarres, who has made a verbal commitment to play at the University of Arkansas, was a disruptive force on the field all day long, including picking off a pass and rumbling 40 yards for a touchdown for the first score of the day. He also had eight tackles, seven of them solo.Head coach Charlie Roche said that a key to the victory was the physical way his team goes about playing football on both offense and defense and how they are able to wear opponents down."We're a physical team, even in practice, and we went at them today," he said.In front of the home crowd on a perfect October day in Siskiyou County, the COS Eagles were fired up from the start as team members enthusiastically cheered from the sidelines from the opening whistle as players showed their excitement and enthusiasm And, in this contest, that excitement and enthusiasm lasted the majority of the contest. Laney could do very little against the COS Eagles as the defense kept stuffing the Laney offensive attack and the COS offense kept marching the ball down the field. By the end of the half, COS had a 17-0 advantage and continued to roll in the second half. The two Laney scores came in the fourth quarter when the game was already out of reach.Roche was ecstatic to see the run game perform so efficiently, as well as the way the defense was able to contain and frustrate Laney all afternoon. And, he said, he felt that the passing game was "getting closer" to where he wants it to be, which was encuraging to see.Running back Edwin McKinney made the most of his six touches, rushing for 59 yards and a touchdown. Tyren Watts, Nicolas Marois, David Guthrie and Michael Singleton each had an interception for the COS Eagles. Quarterback Tyler Nickel scored on a one-yard run. He went 8-for-19 passing for 76 yards.This Saturday, COS is back on the field as they host 4-2 Sacramento City at 2 p.m in Weed.